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Show . Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, Dec 10, 1959 Kcnnccott Reviews Projects Now Completed Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation moved ahead during 1959 with its broad long-range program of improving local plant facilities facil-ities and effecting greater operational op-erational efficiency, i The comprehensive program Is aimed at Insuring future successful operations in spite of climbing operating costs end an Increasingly competi tive world copper1 market. For Utah Copper, the year 1959 saw the completion of two major long-range projects costing approximately $27,000,-000. $27,000,-000. They were an 18,000 foot tunnel from the mouth of Bingham Canyon Into the world-famed open-pit mine end a $16,000,000 expansion of the Division's Central Power Plant at the Magna Mill The Division also took one of the most important steps In its history early in the year when it required the Garfield smelter as part of Kennecott's program of integration of its copper producing facilities. The half-century-old facility will be modified and improved in a farslghted program ex tending into the 18S.s. Skipper of Raft Lehi Talks at BYU DeVere Baker, famed skip per of the Raft, Lehi was the speaker at the Alcyone Social Unit culture night recently in the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University. Captain Bake r, whose daughter Tamra, is a member of Alcyone, is the ex-Navy flier and shipyard president who successfuly piloted his raft, Lehi IV, from Long Beach, Calif., to the harbor of Hawaii merely by drifting with the current. This was the fourth attempt by Captain Baker to prove that it was possible for people of ancient times to travel from Central America to the Polyn-nesian Polyn-nesian lsnds by floating with the ocean currents, as is related re-lated in the Book of Mormon. , Captain Baker is the author of "The Raft, Lehi IV a book which tells of his adventures at sea while aboard Lehi IV. He was accompanied by the crew members and a small dog mascot mas-cot on his successful voyage Lehi IV is is an 18 by 24 foot raft A year-Ion? trip has been planned for the near future in which Cattaln Baker will at temnt to drift from the Red Sea to Guatemala, a distance of 18,000 miles. The best time to build Judg ment 's-m solitude, when you can tMnk ut things for your self w'thnut the -orohaintv of inerruotion. Grenville Kle- West Coast Dimensional Lumber $126.00 Per 1000 Ft. Pine Sheeting 1x8 No. 3 $100.00 Per 1000 Ft Paid by 10th of month 2 Discounts on Bills Stop AndA ja it Save At Sign Of V The Hammer 1480 No. State, Provo Phone FB S-1063 Salmon Pharmacy 'Quality Prescription Service Eyes almost green When yen get It at Salmon's Ton Know Il'i KIht Phone AC 5-2150 OREM. UTAH Package for Sfeelwortters THE STEEL I M Ml pa UJU Almost $1,100 worth of increased wages and benefits in A three year, strike-free agreement; and A practical way to settle the "local working conditions" dispute What the package includes A three year package providing improved benefits in the first year and higher wages in the second and third years. This would cost more than 30 cents per hour worked, without provision for possible cost-of-living increases, in-creases, and would accumulate to $1,081 for the average steelworker over the period. It includes: Insurance Company-paid life insurance on a generally increased in-creased scale. - Company-paid sickness and accident benefits also on an increased scale. Consequent reduction in employee contribution to insurance program and a net increase in take-home pay. Improvements in insurance protection in event of lay-off. Pensions Increased pensions for employees retiring after January 1, 1960, including: An increase of at least $12 per month for employees retiring on minimum pensions with 35 or more years of service. An increase of $5 per month for employees retiring with more than minimum pensions. An increase of $10 per month in minimum disability pensions. 1 Provision for early retirement on full pension under special circumstances. Wages Wage increase in the second year, ranging from six to twelve cents per hour, depending on job classification. classifi-cation. Another wage increase in the third year, ranging from six to twelve cents per hour. Cost-of-Living Continuation of 17 cents an hour cost-of-living adjustment ad-justment obtained under previous contract. Further provisions for possible cost-of-living increases. Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Increased cash payments by companies into Supplemental Supple-mental Unemployment Benefit fund. Restoration of full benefit level at beginning of new agreement. Seniority Strengthened seniority rights in line with certain Union proposals. Human Relations Research A Joint Committee on Human Relations Research to study employment stabilization and many other mutual problems. Local Working Conditions Submission to a Union-Company Committee for solution, so-lution, and to final arbitration if necessary. T JLhis is the offer which the steel companies made on November 15 and otn which the employees may vote early next month if no settlement is negotiated nego-tiated meanwhile. In declining to accept this offer the union officials offi-cials demanded a package of wages and benefits which, with cost-of-living provisions, could amount to an inflationary 45 cents per hour. The Companies' offer amounts to an average annual increase of 2.7 percent in their employment employ-ment costs. According to Secretary of Labor Mitchell's Fact Finding Report, however, output ; per man-hour in the steel industry increased at an average annual rate of only 2.6 percent between 1947 and 1957. Clearly this is a fair and generous offer; but it confronts the Companies with a difficult problemthe prob-lemthe problem of meeting their increased employment em-ployment cost without reducing their ability to compete both with low-cost foreign made steel and with substitute materials produced here at home. In meeting this problem they must count on the steelworkers themselves to help earn the additional ad-ditional money going into their pay envelopes by cooperating in the elimination of waste wherever possible. That is what the local working conditions condi-tions dispute is all about A Way to Solve the Local Working Conditions Dispute As a solution to this dispute, which has been a stumbling block in the negotiations thus far, the Companies have offered to accept the Union's proposal for a joint study committee. But if that step does not result in a mutually satisfactory solution by June 30, 1960, the issue would be turned over to binding arbitration. They have also expanded the question which would be submitted to the committer, and to arbitration arbi-tration if necessary, by adding the words underlined under-lined in the following question. It now reads : "What, if any, changes should be made in the local working conditions provisions of the basic labor agreements to enable the Companies to take reasonable steps to improve efficiency and eliminate waste, with due regard for the welfare of the employees involved, including: the avoidance of undue work burdens; and, to the extent practicable, the retraining and placement on available jobs in the plant, of any employees affected by such steps?" Meanwhile, subject to a solution of the issue In this way, the Companies would agree that the present local working conditions provisions be retained re-tained if the Union in turn would agree that its officers and members will cooperate with management manage-ment to improve efficiency and eliminate waste. Companies Strive to Meet Union Objections Of the contract changes originally proposed by the Companies, all except those generally relating re-lating to local working conditions, wildcat strikes end scheduling have now been dropped. Those remaining have been substantially modified in an effort to meet the Union's objections. Thus the Steel Companies have made every effort to reach a non-inflationary agreement through voluntary collective bargaining. They know that the outcome of the negotiations negotia-tions between the Steel Companies and the Steel-workers Steel-workers Union is of vital interest to everyone . . . that it can affect the value of your dollar, your standard of living and your future security. They know that American industry must be able to compete at all times with the growing economic eco-nomic challenge from abroad. They realize the heavy responsibility that rests upon them in these negotiations and they have sought to meet this responsibility fairly and fully. They believe that the offer presented above accomplishes this purpose. What do you think? WHAT THIS OFFER MEANS TO AVERAGE STEELWORKER (Employment cost based on 1800 hours per year) Benefits First Wage Increase Second Wage Increase Total FIRST YEAR $173.00 SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR TOTAL $189.00 $215.00 $577.00 - $168.00 $168.00 $336.00 - $168.00 $168.00 $173.00 $357.00 $551.00 $1081.00 Dom not Includa poaiibla cost-of-living incrauo which could reach maximum of $259.00 ovar tha period. THE STEEL COMPANIES COORDINATING COMMITTEE 375 Lexington Avenue New York 17, New York Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation Armco Steel Corporation Bethlehem Steel Company The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation Great Lakes Steel Corporation Inland Ste"el Company Jones 4 Laughlln Steel Corporation Republic Steel Corporation United States Steel Corporation Wheeling Steel Corporation The Youngstown Sheet and Tub Company. |